IRS WISP: The Security Plan Every Tax & Accounting Firm Needs
Every paid tax preparer is required to have a written information security plan. Here is what a WISP must cover and how to build one that holds up.
2026-06-29 · 5 min readRead →
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Ground-level perspective on the IT trends shaping business in 2026 — AI security, Microsoft Copilot, compliance shifts, and what actually gets deployed.
21 articles in Industry Trends
21 articles
IT for Law Firms: Security, Confidentiality, and Compliance
Law firms have distinct IT needs around attorney-client privilege, court filing, and client security expectations. Here's what actually matters.
2026-05-25 · 4 min readRead →
IT for Professional Services: Confidentiality + Productivity
Consulting, accounting, and advisory firms share IT patterns around confidentiality, mobility, and the tools fee earners use. Here's the stack.
2026-05-25 · 4 min readRead →
Manufacturing IT and OT Security for Mid-Market Plants
Manufacturing plants have unique IT/OT challenges. Here's what mid-market manufacturers should know about ICS, segmentation, and modernization.
2026-05-25 · 3 min readRead →
Construction IT: Field Connectivity for Active Job Sites
Construction IT spans office and active job sites. Here's what works for connectivity, rugged devices, and field data capture.
2026-05-25 · 4 min readRead →
The 2026 Cybersecurity Buyer's Guide for Growing Businesses
How to evaluate cybersecurity providers in 2026: the controls that matter, the questions to ask, and the contract terms to negotiate before signing.
2026-05-25 · 4 min readRead →
Restaurant IT: POS Security, PCI, and Network Design
Restaurant IT centers on POS reliability and payment card security. Here's what to evaluate and how to design the network for PCI compliance.
2026-05-25 · 4 min readRead →
Cost of IT Downtime: How to Calculate the Hourly Impact
The cost of IT downtime is almost always higher than expected.
2026-04-22 · 4 min readRead →
Generative AI Attack Surfaces Your Firewall Can't See
Generative AI security risks go beyond traditional threats. Employee AI tool use creates attack surfaces your firewall can’t detect — here’s what to do.
2026-04-18 · 3 min readRead →
AI-Native Networks: What AIOps Means for Business IT
AIOps lives up to some of its marketing and falls short on the rest. Here's an honest read on where AI-driven networking delivers today.
2026-03-21 · 4 min readRead →
Hybrid Work IT: Infrastructure for the Modern Workforce
Hybrid work broke office-network IT models. Here's the connectivity, identity, endpoint, and collaboration architecture that supports it.
2026-03-04 · 4 min readRead →
Cloud vs. On-Premises: Which IT Model Fits Your Business?
The cloud-vs-on-prem debate has matured into workload placement decisions. Here's the framework for what goes where in 2026.
2026-02-07 · 3 min readRead →
2026 Compliance Landscape: What's Changed for Business
State privacy laws, CMMC enforcement, breach notification compression, and cyber insurance underwriting have all reshaped 2026 compliance.
2026-01-16 · 4 min readRead →
The Hidden Costs of Outdated IT Infrastructure
Outdated infrastructure rarely fails dramatically — it bleeds value through productivity tax, downtime, security risk, and opportunity cost.
2025-12-26 · 4 min readRead →
How Businesses Use Microsoft Copilot to Boost Productivity
Microsoft Copilot delivers real productivity gains in specific use cases. Here's where it's working, where it underperforms, and how to deploy well.
2025-12-03 · 4 min readRead →
HIPAA Compliance: What Healthcare IT Teams Need to Know
HIPAA Security Rule compliance for IT teams: what OCR actually audits, the technical safeguards required, and the common findings.
2025-11-13 · 4 min readRead →
Passwordless Authentication: Ready to Ditch Passwords?
Passwordless authentication is ready for business deployment. Here's the phased rollout that gets most of the value without breaking workflows.
2025-10-25 · 4 min readRead →
Microsoft Copilot for Business: What IT Sees After 6 Months
Microsoft Copilot has been in production for long enough to move past the hype.
2025-10-07 · 4 min readRead →
What Is a SOC 2 Report and Does Your Business Need One?
Your enterprise customers are asking for your SOC 2 report. Or your vendor's sales team is claiming they have one.
2025-09-23 · 4 min readRead →
Edge Computing Explained: When It Makes Sense for Business
Edge computing processes data closer to where it's generated instead of sending it to the cloud.
2025-09-06 · 3 min readRead →
Consumerization of IT: How Employee Tech Reshapes Business
Employees arrive with better personal tech than most businesses provide.
2025-08-27 · 3 min readRead →